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Re: Why the Rhetorical Journey?

OliviaMitchell — Thu, 06 May 2010 17:28:52 -0000

Hi Connor
Thank you for your openness. And the story about Tony Robbins is thought-provoking. I hope your recovery is rapid!
Olivia

Re: Reduce font size to increase readability

OliviaMitchell — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:15:19 -0000

But if we're going to have slides when presenting - we may as well work on making them as good as they can be.

But I agree that you don't need to have extraordinary design to be effective as a speaker. I think Tom Peter's slides are awful! But he is hugely effective as a public speaker,and he succeeds despite his slides. Doesn't mean he couldn't improve his slides. I think that would improve the audience experience.

Re: the newspaper example - it was an analogy and shouldn't be taken too far. I agree with you that there are significant differences between public speaking and newspaper advertising

Re: Reduce font size to increase readability

OliviaMitchell — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:58:05 -0000

Depends what you mean by readable. As a non-designer my instinct would be to have gone for the bigger font - and sure the letters will be easier to make out from far away. But I think the flow of the sentence works better the way Jan has formatted it, because it's in appropriate chunks. And the discrete use of bold draws me in. It reminds me of those newspaper ads where the advertiser takes out a whole page - then just puts a small sentence in the middle. Olivia

Re: 10 reasons why Presentations are going to make it big in 2009: Technology

OliviaMitchell — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:00:41 -0000

Brilliant Christophe. Thank you for bringing all these technologies together in one place. Olivia

Re: SlideRocket: A Review

OliviaMitchell — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:01:59 -0000

Wow. What a thorough evaluation you've done here Mike. I think I'll stay clear of SlideRocket. Have you tried out 280slides yet?